Top Links
- MauiReactor: An MVU Approach for .NET MAUI (David Ortinau)
- C# 15 Unions (NDepend Team)
- Presenting T-SQL Analyzer – live best practices analysis of your SQL scripts in Visual Studio (Erik EJ)
- Register now: Grow your skills and build connections at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Jill Armour)
- MCP Foundry – An MCP Server that interacts with Azure AI Foundry (experimental) (Azure AI Foundry Team)
- Who are we designing for now? (Toni Wowtscherk)
- GitHub Copilot for Azure (Preview) Launches in Visual Studio 2022 with Azure MCP Support (Yun Jung Choi)
Web & Cloud Development
- Learning web development: Shells and Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Optimizing ASP.NET Core Web Site Performance – Duende’s Need for Speed (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Zero-Trust Architecture in Practice: Beyond the Buzzword with .NET and Azure (Sudhir Mangla)
- Master Angular Signals in 2025: Build Faster, Smarter Angular Apps (Ankit Sharma)
- Introducing RSC Mode in KendoReact Grid (Hassan Djirdeh)
- Exploring the Blazor PDF Viewer Control (Héctor Pérez)
- How to Remove Microsoft Sentinel (Security Insights) from a Log Analytics Workspace (Shannon Kuehn)
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- .NET Preview 7 Adds XAML Source Generator (I Programmer)
- Turn Default into Delight: MAUI DataGrid Customization, Part 2—Summary Styling Simplified (Farjana Parveen)
- How to Automate PDF Redaction in WPF Using Azure OpenAI (Vikas S.)
- Microsoft Provides a Small Update on the Windows App SDK (Paul Thurrott)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- Visual Studio Copilot: BYO Model + MCP GA (David Ramel)
- Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 11: Repairing assignment (Raymond Chen)
AI
- Safeguarding VS Code against prompt injections (Michael Stepankin)
- The Agent Builder’s Reading List: What Actually Matters (Muhammad Azeez)
- Announcing the OpenAI Learning Accelerator (OpenAI Team)
- Cactus Lets You Build LLM Powered Applications On Your Mobile Phone (Nikos Vaggalis)
- Context Engineering: Bringing Engineering Discipline to Prompts—Part 3 (Addy Osmani)
- Using Vibe Coding to Alter a Twilio Code Exchange Template (Amanda Lange)
- Fine-Tuning and Deploying GPT Models Using Hugging Face Transformers (Cheuk Ting Ho)
- Your Kind Of Automation – Using AI (Gil Zilberfeld)
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Securing Amazon Bedrock Agents with Auth0 (Kapil Patil)
- Is Copilot More Accurate Than ChatGPT and MCP vs A2A: What Problems Do They Solve and How Are They Different? and When to Use MCP vs A2A: A Complete Guide (Mahesh Chand)
- Implement AI safeguards with Python and Llama Stack (Michael Dawson)
- Perplexity to Offer Comet Plus Subscription for $5 Per Month (Paul Thurrott)
- NotebookLM’s Video Overviews are now available in 80 languages (Sam Dealy)
- AI Code Generation Creates Blind Spots in DevSecOps Security (Sean Michael Kerner)
- Top GitHub Copilot Shortcuts and Commands for Faster Coding (Stephen Simon)
- AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers (Will Knight)
- Build autonomous agents in Copilot Studio | Your MCPs, your models & multi-agent (Zachary Cavanell)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Migrating Octopus projects to Terraform with Octoterra (Matthew Casperson)
- Agile culture Series: Making Retrospectives Matter: Beyond the Sticky Notes (Part 3) (Soumya)
- Making continuous learning work at work (Eira May)
- Git Worktree: Managing Multiple Working Directories (Gérald Barré)
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Meta Has Already Won the Smart Glasses Race (Amy Francombe)
- App Hosting has faster deployments, route-based monitoring, and improved CI/CD setup (Jeff Huleatt)
- What’s Next for Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform – August 2025 Update (Ekaterina Petrova)
Screencasts & Videos
- Model Mondays S2E11: Exploring Speech AI in Azure AI Foundry (Sharda Kaur)
- Automate debugging with the Playwright MCP server (GitHub Team)
- Agentic Coding: Armin Ronacher | Python on Azure (Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza & Marlene Mhangami)
- Context Window: Answering 3 Developer Questions to Save on AI Costs (Korey Stegared-Pace)
- API vs. MCP comparison (Microsoft Mechanics)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: Why Rust Will Help You Deliver Better Low-latency Systems and Happier Developers (Andrew Lamb)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Svelte was built on “slinging code for the sheer love of it” (Phoebe Sajor)
- The Expert Who Couldn’t Connect: An Agile Team Integration Challenge | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Salum Abdul-Rahman)
- Guidance Counselor 2.0 Episode 477 – How Gilad Shoham Cracked 52 Interviews in 30 Days (Taylor Desseyn)
- The GitHub Podcast – The Joy of Developer Education with CodeTV (Victoria Marin, Steph Colbourn, Kedasha Kerr, editaudio, Cassidy Williams, Kathleen Speckert & Abigail Cabunoc Mayes)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #931 – Project Init – How to Make Good Choices When Starting a New Coding Project (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #158 – Omarchy 2.0: Best Linux setup ever? (Jerod Santo)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #240 – Cyber Resiliency for the Rest of Us: Making it Happen on a Real-World Budget (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #446 – State of Python 2025 (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – Why we say ‘near miss.’ How dogs got their names. Stupid dog Jackie. (Mignon Fogarty & Natalie Schilling)
- The Happy Engineer Podcast – Promotion Killers: 4 Behaviors That Quietly Cost You Leadership Opportunities (Max Ahumada)
Community & Events
- Who are the bold innovators? Submit a nomination for GeekWire’s Uncommon Thinkers Awards (Kurt Schlosser)
- Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon (Sarah Perez)
- Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind talent as Dave Citron joins as new corporate VP and Rec Room lays off half its staff in major shakeup at Seattle startup (Taylor Soper)
Database
- DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation (Abinav Rameesh)
- SQL SERVER Performance – JSON vs XML (Pinal Dave)
- Secure Your Connections with Entra ID Support in the DocumentDB VS Code Extension (Khelan Modi)
- SQL CTE Examples for Time Series Analysis (Rick Dobson)
SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams
- Maximizing value from Microsoft 365 [Q&A] (Ian Barker)
Miscellaneous
- Firing Junior Developers Is Indeed The Dumbest Thing (Mike Loukides)
- Get ready for Windows quality updates out of the box (Victoria Wang)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-35 (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – August 25, 2025 (#614) (Richard Seroter)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora 10th anniversary, Amazon EC2 R8 instances, Amazon Bedrock and more (August 25, 2025) (Betty Zheng)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #269 (Jasen)
- Reading Notes #662 (Frank Boucher)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral Link
